John Grant is author of a number of books including Coopportunity, published in January 2010. His other titles include The Green Marketing Manifesto, winner of the 2008 British Book (Design & Production) Awards environmental category. His first book, The New Marketing Manifesto, was named by Amazon.com as one of the ten best business books of 1999.

John is a former co-founder and planning director of socially aware ad agency St Luke's (featured in the Harvard Business Review and Fast Company). John's recent consulting clients include ACTONCO2, Design Council, IKEA, innocent drinks, Royal Mail and Unilever. John is a frequent speaker, media commentator, writer, think tanker and also a prolific blogger at greenormal.blogspot.com.

John is soon to be launching a new sustainability & strategy consultancy called Abundancy Partners, together with Jules Peck, the director of the Conservative party's Quality of Life Challenge, and Tamara Giltsoff, the managing director of Ozolab, the green ventures incubator.